The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

A pre-Inca mummy unearthed in Peru’s Puente Piedra district reveals details about a young woman’s life and ancient Chancay rituals.

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into ...

Gas workers digging beneath a major capital city stumbled upon a 1,000-year-old mummy, almost on the opposite side of the ...

GAS workers have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy just a metre below the surface of the Earth during a routine pipe ...

Living along the coast of Peru from around 900 to 1500 A.D., the Chancay people was well known for their impressive artwork, including wood carvings, ceramics, and textiles.

Humorous pottery and complex tattoos. The Chancay culture was a pre-Hispanic civilization that lived in the valleys of present day coastal Peru from about 1000 to 1470 CE. It was likely absorbed ...

From left, drawing of a human ceramic figure depicted with body art similar to the mummified remains, example of textile art, location of modern Chancay along the coast of Peru (Michael Pittman et ...

MA LIU SHUI, HONG KONG—According to a Live Science report, paleobiologist Michael Pittman of The […] ...

Living along the coast of Peru from around 900 to 1500 A.D., the Chancay people was well known for their impressive artwork, including wood carvings, ceramics, and textiles.